tf. S. CHRISTIAN COMMISSION. 



: > tea at each station, as needed; and at City 

 Point, forty to fifty. Three hundred the full corps. 



three thousand in all have served. 

 3. Managers of Diet . About sixty ladies 



employed. 



in. APPLIANCES. 



1. Barrack chapels, store, and subsistence rooms, 

 at permanent camps. 



iiapel, store, and subsistence tents, at all mov- 

 able stations. 



3. Churches, houses, etc., detailed by Government, 

 at most permanent stations. 



4. Wagons and teams, four horse, for each moving 

 organization ; two-horse for such stations as require 

 them. 



5. Special dist kitchens in field-hospitals, ma- 

 under direction of the surgeons, by Christian Com- 

 mission lady managers. 



IV. LABORS. 



1. Hospital. Preaching; prayer-meetings; person- 

 al intercourse with soldiers ; and distribution. 



2. Fid'.l. The same at all stations, and along the 

 lines; at all out-stations, isolated posts, batteries, etc. 



3. Battle-field work. 



4. Individual relief, aid. and information, at special 

 request. 



5. Forwarding home money for soldiers in service, 

 and effects of deceased soldiers. 



'imaging special diet kitchens, under medical 

 authorities. 



V. WHAT IS DISTRIBUTED. 



Battle-field, hospital, and special diet kitchen 

 stores ; such as shirts, drawers, socks, handkerchiefs, 

 towels, bandages, lint, farina, corn-starch, crackers, 

 cordials, dried fruits, canned fruits, fresh apples, 

 grapes, peaches, etc., onions, potatoes, ice, syrups, 

 jc-llies, pickles, etc., Jamaica ginger, condensed milk. 

 Bibles for hospitals and Bible-classes ; Testaments to 

 all soldiers. Scriptures in German, French, and other 

 foreign languages. Gunboat libraries, hospital libra- 

 -oldiers* Tjooks, weekly and monthly religious 

 papers, over four hundred thousand a month; tracts, 

 bilent Comforters, etc. 



The General Government has cheerfully fur- 

 nished the free transportation of men and sup- 

 plies over all military rail \vays, and generously 

 granted many privileges and' accommodations, 

 restricted only by absolute military necessity. 

 Eailroad and steamboat companies have, under 

 proper regulations, very generally given passes 

 for the delegates of the Commission and for the 

 transportation of their stores. The telegraph 

 wires, without charge, have been used for the 

 transmission of despatches on business with the 

 Institution, and every information and oppor- 

 tunity afforded to enable the Commission to 

 carry forward its appropriate and benevolent 

 work intelligently and successfully. The whole 

 army is accessible to the labors of the Commis- 

 sion. Its delegates are welcomed at all points, 

 its authority regarded and its influence felt. 

 Its voluntary, unpaid delegates, have been men 

 of the highest position and character, bishops 

 and pastors of the largest and most influential 

 churches in city and country, lawyers and phy- 

 sicians of eminence, merchants and manufac- 

 turers, students of colleges and theological 

 seminaries, etc. The American Bible Society 

 has granted largely of Bibles and Testaments 

 in different languages ; the Tract and Publica- 

 tion Societies, and publishers of religious and 

 moral books, periodicals, and newspapers, of 



r. s. DNIOH OOMMH 803 



of tho highest 



work, uu : , t k 



- of the su:: 



\.i of 



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- 



which oui. 



iio remainder being in su: 

 arid facilities of transportation, etc., gnu,:' 

 it- I Q l' s of the centnd 



and branch offices of the ( 

 mated at | 5: of wl,: 



in money, and the remainder 

 grants, and railroad and telegraph facilities, and 

 the estimated value of the services of deli . 

 In 1864 the total estimated receipts 



.86: of which ,13 in 



money; $1,160,508.37 in hospi: . *33,- 



084.38 hi publications donated; $72,114.- 

 Bibles and Testaments from the American Bible 

 Society. The estimated value of volunteer dele- 

 gates services was $169,920; the value of rail- 

 road, steamboat, and other transportation facili- 



value of telegraphic facii. 

 V3; rents of warehouses and offices do- 

 nated, $6,750. 



The total aggregate of receipts for the three 

 years ending Jan. 1, 1865, was $4,030,441.80. 

 Since that period not far from $400,000 in 

 money has been received, and very large 

 amounts of hospital suppl! 



The following general summary of the work 

 and distribution of the Commission for the year 

 1864, will give some idea of its activity and 

 useful;. 



UNITED STATES UNION -ION. 



This, like the Sanitary and Christian Commis- 

 sions, was called into existence by the exigencies 

 of the war. The contending armies surging to 



